This year’s edition of SF Chefs — the local food and drink festival that has invaded Union Square for the last five years — will be quite different. It’s changing names, and changing venues.

The new name is Eat Drink SF, and for the first time, it will take place in Fort Mason.

Gwyneth Borden, new executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, says the new venue will allow everyone at the festival to essentially spread out a bit. That means more room for chefs to prep, more room for more events — and well, the potential to sell more tickets. They’ll lose the visibility and centrality of Union Square, but hope to make up for it in other ways.

“We can double the programming opportunities,” Borden says. “Friday night in particular always sells out, and it’s always tight quarters. We would really love to have more people [for the Friday opening event].”

The big events will take place in the festival pavilion, while classes, panels and demos will take advantage of Fort Mason’s conference centers and other nearby rooms.

It’s the latest feather-in-the-cap for Fort Mason, which is becoming quite the food destination with Off the Grid, the farmers’ market, the continued success of Greens and so on.